Source What reason does it give? What evidence does it use? Use Do you agree or disagree? How trustworthy is this Strength of quotes Explain why this meant source? 10 very Bolsheviks/Weakness of success for the revolution trustworthy, 1 not at all Provisional Government/War
Source A: An extract from the diary of P. Sorokin, a Socialist Source B: A. J. P. Taylor, a British historian, writing in his book Revolutions Revolutionary describing the Bolshevik attack on the and Revolutionaries, published in 1980 Provisional Government on 25 October 1917. The diary was published in 1920. The Provisional Government had shrunk to a meeting of ministers in the Winter Palace. It was not overthrown by a mess attack on the Winter I learned that the Bolsheviks had brought up the warship Palace. A few Red Guards climbed in through the servants’ entrance, Aurora and had opened fire on the Winter Palace, demanding found the Provisional Government in a meeting and arrested the ministers the surrender of the members of the Provisional Government in the name of the people. Six people, five of them Red Guards, were barricaded there…There was a team of women and young casualties of bad shooting by their comrades. military trainees bravely resisting an overwhelming force of Bolshevik troops…Poor women, poor lads, their situation was desperate, for we knew the wild sailors would tear them to pieces.
Source C: BBC Bitesize account of the October Revolution. In April 1917 the German government helps the Bolshevik leader Lenin return 2019. to Russia. He publishes the 'April Theses', offering people: 'Peace, bread, land', and proclaims: ‘All power to the Soviets'. The Russian people wanted the war to come to an end. However, the Provisional Government decided to continue Source D: Morgan Philips Price, Manchester Guardian (17th July, 1917) Russia’s involvement. They feared that foreign investment from Britain and France would cease in the event of a There then rose upon the stand a man whose name has been on all lips for Russian withdrawal. many weeks past - Lenin. He is a short man with a round head, small pig-like eyes, and close-cropped hair. The words poured from his mouth, In March, 1917, the Petrograd Soviet declared that it would overwhelming all in a flood of oratory [speech]. One sat spellbound [amazed] no longer support an offensive war against Germany. at his command of language and the passion of his denunciation.